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Search for Survivors Races On as 91 Feared Dead in Tornado-Hit Oklahoma

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:00 +0100

Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

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Without Glia, the Brain Would Starve

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 +0100

The brain is voracious: compared with other organs, it consumes 10 times more oxygen and nutrients, receiving them by way of dense networks of blood vessels. Scientists know how these networks initially grow, but a surprising new study suggests that they are stabilized in early life by stem cells in the brain called radial glia. The finding could have significant implications for our understanding of Alzheimer's disease, a condition characterized in part by brainwide vascular problems. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Matt Ridley has joined the real climate debate | Myles Allen

Guardian Unlimited Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:52 +0100

The climate sceptic's interpretation of my study as final endorsement of his position means we can move onIt isn't often, as a climate scientist, that you find your research being enthusiastically endorsed by climate sceptic Matt Ridley in the Times. We published a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday giving a new best estimate of 1.3C for the warming expected at the time in the future when carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches double the level it did before the industrial revolution (known as Transient Climate Response, or TCR).Ridley is excited about this, because he feels it means that until his teenage children reach retirement age, they won't have to worry about global warming. And he is worried that government policies are misguided because they place their faith in cl...

You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:00 +0100

In April 15, 2013 Dove launched a 3-minute video entitled “Dove Real Beauty Sketches.” The video achieved instant popularity and has been watched millions of times -- a successful viral campaign which has been widely talked about . In the video, a small group of women are asked to describe their faces to a person whom they cannot see. The person is a forensic artist who is there to draw pictures of the women based on their verbal descriptions. A curtain separates the artist and the women, and they never see each other. Before all this, each woman is asked to socialize with a stranger, who later separately describes the woman to the forensic artist. In the end, the women are shown the two drawings, one based on their own description, the other based on the stranger’s descr...

Why Google Glass is Creepy

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:15:00 +0100

Every new technology causes initial public discomfort. It took society a long time to accept cell phones as commonplace. Before that, television. And before that, tractors. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

No-Kill, High-Resolution 3-D Movies of Cells Now Possible [Video + Infographic]

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100

Lillian Fritz-Laylin is observing a strain of leukemia cell that zips along at about 10 to 20 microns per minute. She’s looking for the motive secret of how these speed demons of the cellular world get around, and she’s doing it by making a high-resolution 3-D micro movie. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Why Penguins Cannot Fly

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:30:00 +0100

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Further Space Oddity: Jeremy Paxman grills British astronaut Major Tim Peake in weirdly aggressive Newsnight interview

The Independent - Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:12:16 +0100

If there were any doubt that a former Apache helicopter pilot and Britain’s first official astronaut could be cool under pressure, he proved it last night in the face of weirdly aggressive questioning by Jeremy Paxman. (Source: The Independent - Science)

Twins conjoined at the liver separated in Peru – video

Guardian Unlimited Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:11:16 +0100

Two baby girls who shared a liver have been separated by doctors in Lima, Peru (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)

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Schmallenberg vaccine available to UK farmers this summer

Guardian Unlimited Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:36:02 +0100

Vaccine will prevent a disease that causes severe birth defects and miscarriages in livestockA new vaccine is being made available to prevent a disease which causes severe birth defects and miscarriages in livestock, it was announced today.Schmallenberg virus, which emerged in the Netherlands and Germany in 2011 and has been seen in cattle and sheep in the UK since early 2012, has been identified on more than 1,700 farms across the country.Adult animals infected during pregnancies in the autumn by virus-carrying midges, thought to have blown across the Channel, have given birth to deformed or stillborn lambs and calves.UK farmers are the first in the European Union to have access to a vaccine against Schmallenberg, which will be available for vaccinating livestock this summer before most a...

Build the Human Body by Richard Walker | Book Review | @GrrlScientist

Guardian Unlimited Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:00:01 +0100

This kit overcomes one of the main challenges for teaching anatomy by adopting a build-it-yourself approach. The book is concise, well-written and engaging and the kit is accurate and interesting and will provide many hours of enjoyment as children and adults work together to build the human body. Sometimes, the best way to learn is to wrap your hands around stuff and ... build it yourself! This perhaps is never more important than when trying to learn anatomy, which is the reason that these courses include models and a "wet lab". But what if you don't have access to squishy things that you can cut up? This is where Richard Walker's accessible model/book kit, Build the Human Body, fills the gap [Templar Publishing, 2013; Guardian Bookshop; Amazon UK; Amazon US]. This oversized hardcover bo...

One giant leap for Britain: UK's first official astronaut Major Tim Peake on tweeting like Chris Hadfield and missing his wife and sons

The Independent - Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:16:55 +0100

Britain's first astronaut in more than 20 years, a 41-year-old Apache helicopter pilot called Major Tim Peake, said today that his biggest anxiety about spending six months on the International Space Station as a flight engineer was the thought of leaving his young family behind on Earth. (Source: The Independent - Science)

Singapore's First Home-Grown Influenza Vaccine In Phase 1 Clinical Trial

Health News from Medical News Today — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100

The vaccine based on Cytos' Virus-Like Particle technology may open the door to accelerated production of influenza vaccines in Singapore Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Switzerland's Cytos Biotechnology AG today announced that the first healthy volunteer has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial with their H1N1 influenza vaccine candidate based on Cytos' proprietary bacteriophage Qbeta virus-like particle (VLP) technology... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

The science of webcomics| Dean Burnett

Guardian Unlimited Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:00 +0100

Do webcomics use an 'emergent system'? Maybe not but it's enough for Dean Burnett to shoehorn an interview with the authors/artists/web gurus behind Exterminatus Now in the Guardian science sectionWebcomics are increasingly widespread and popular. It could be argued their proliferation is linked to the decline of print comics, in the same way that free news sites and blogging are often blamed for the decline in newspapers. Webcomics don't get nearly as much mainstream publicity though (at least none that I've seen). Even the more popular examples like XKCD seemingly go largely unmentioned in other media formats, despite their considerable success.Webcomics are interesting from a scientific perspective. They rely on both new and ancient technology (the internet and drawing, respectively) be...

Good Gut Bacteria May Keep Bad At Bay

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:59:08 +0100

Most E. coli bacteria are harmless. It’s the rare, pathogenic strains that can cause bloody diarrhea, kidney disease, or death. But many of us may already be carrying the antidote--a healthy colony of gut bacteria. Because a study finds that when bad E. coli get in, beneficial microbes appear to keep them at bay. In mice, at least. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Child maltreatment increases risk of adult obesity

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(King's College London) Children who have suffered maltreatment are 36 percent more likely to be obese in adulthood compared to non-maltreated children, according to a new study by King's College London. The authors estimate that the prevention or effective treatment of seven cases of child maltreatment could avoid one case of adult obesity. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

Genetic variation in KCNA5: impact on the atrial-specific potassium current IKur in patients with lone atrial fibrillation

European Heart Journal — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

Conclusion This study is the first to present gain-of-function mutations in KCNA5 in patients with early-onset lone AF. We identified three gain-of-function and three loss-of-function mutations. We report a high prevalence of variants in KCNA5 in these patients. This supports the hypothesis that both increased and decreased potassium currents enhance AF susceptibility. (Source: European Heart Journal)

Exercise levels may predict hospitalizations in COPD population

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(American Thoracic Society) Clinical measurement of physical activity appears to be an independent predictor of whether or not patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will end up being hospitalized, according to a new study conducted by researchers in Connecticut. The study also corroborates an earlier investigation that linked higher levels of inactivity with an increased incidence of hospitalizations among patients with COPD. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

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Large 200 MPH Tornado Hits Suburb of Oklahoma City

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:35:00 +0100

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Angelina Jolie and the One Percent

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:46:00 +0100

After learning that she had inherited a mutation on one of the so-called breast cancer genes, actress Angelina Jolie decided to have a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer. She also plans to have her ovaries removed to reduce her risk of ovarian cancer. It may sound like a drastic measure, but mutations on the breast cancer genes ( BRCA1 and BRCA2 ) increase the overall risk of developing several cancers, including prostate, pancreatic, testicular, ovarian, and breast. On average, a woman with a BRCA1 mutation (the one Jolie has) has a 65 percent risk of developing breast cancer and a 39 percent risk of ovarian cancer by the age of 70. Jolie's mother died of ovarian cancer at age 56, after ten years of living with the disease. Jolie explained her medical decisio...

Interventions to Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review

American Journal of Preventive Medicine — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:15:34 +0100

Conclusions: Evidence is very limited regarding best practices to treat trauma-exposed individuals. Brief cognitive behavioral therapy may reduce PTSD symptom severity in people with acute stress disorder; collaborative care may help decrease symptom severity post-injury. (Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine)

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Forecasters Had Chance To Warn Moore, Okla., Before Tornado

NPR Health and Science — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:12:00 +0100

Melissa Block talks to Jon Hamilton about the science of tornadoes.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

Measuring The Power Of Deadly Tornadoes

NPR Health and Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:37:00 +0100

Tornado strength is currently measured on what is called the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which gives the tornado a rating from 0 to 5 based on estimated wind speeds and the severity of the damage.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

In praise of … the Tim takeoff | Editorial

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:45:54 +0100

As the first official British astronaut, Major Tim Peake will surely rescue his first name from derisionThe sickly child in Dickens and the dog in Blyton – the literary canon was never especially kind to Tims but it was Harry Enfield who finally did for them. After the "nice but dim" caricature, the "Come on, Tim" mantra that accompanied the annual Henman heroics in SW19 was waspishly dismissed as the three most depressing words in the language; and the highbrow likes of Will Self and Martin Amis felt free to trade lowbrow gags about the life-chances of Tims being constrained. Stemming from Chichester, Major Tim Peake will not entirely dispense with the home counties image, which still dogs a name that's never graced a Labour MP. But as the first astronaut who will spacewalk with bona fi...

Development of the Knee Numeric‐Entity Evaluation Score (KNEES – ACL): A condition‐specific questionnaire

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:15:09 +0100

Patient‐related outcome measures (PROMs) are commonly used to gauge treatment effects in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficiency. Valid measures of specific conditions depend on relevant item content. While item content can be derived either from clinicians (face validity) or from patients, item relevance and comprehensiveness can only be confirmed by the patient (content validity). Focus group and single interviews were conducted with patients' pre‐ and post‐ACL reconstruction in order to construct a condition‐specific PROM for the target patients. One hundred fifty‐seven items from a previously conducted literature search were used as a basis for content genesis. Content saturation was achieved after three focus groups and seven single interviews. Thirty‐eig...

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Should we send animals into space? | Poll

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:01:50 +0100

Almost half the animals onboard a Russian spacecraft died during a study of the long-term effects of weightlessness. Should space agencies experiment on animals? (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)

Friendly Viruses Protect Us Against Bacteria

ScienceNOW — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:00 +0100

Viruses in mucus may be important line of defense against disease (Source: ScienceNOW)

ScienceShot: Why Most Snails Coil to the Right

ScienceNOW — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:00 +0100

Researchers uncover evolutionary explanation for lack of "lefties" (Source: ScienceNOW)

Why Penguins Don't Fly

ScienceNOW — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:10:00 +0100

Study of penguin look-alike reveals advantages to being a ground-based bird (Source: ScienceNOW)

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Country diary: Coombs Dale, Derbyshire

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:00 +0100

Coombs Dale, Derbyshire: The land is scarred and nicked, like the face of a veteran fighter, but the blackthorn is smothered in blossomThe high limestone country north of Longstone Edge has its own strange energy, a consequence perhaps of the quarrying there, both ancient and modern. The land is scarred and nicked, like the face of a veteran fighter, a blue-collar countryside.It's also rich with tales of horror, now recruited for the purposes of tourism. The notorious highwayman Black Harry, hanged at nearby Wardlow Mires, has lent his name to a network of bridleways for horse riders to explore.Running across this landscape is the drawn bow of Coombs Dale, with its own legacy of mine workings but now a refuge for nature in the green mosaic of white-walled pasture with, in Ted Hughes' phras...

Tim Peake's space station mission could put a rocket under Britain's economy

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:41:00 +0100

UK space businesses set sights on £1bn orders as Major Tim becomes first official British astronaut chosen to visit ISSThere is the urge to explore the endless heavens, there are the mysteries of the starry cosmos to solve, but above all there is the faltering economy to revive.Of all the reasons nations give for sending their citizens into space, making money has always mattered. For British ministers, high hopes now rest on Tim Peake, the UK's first official astronaut, to inspire the next generation and boost further an industry that has defied gravity throughout the financial doldrums.Major Peake, a former helicopter test pilot, was selected on Monday for a six-month mission to the International Space Station. The 41-year-old from Chichester, who joined the European Space Agency's astr...

The s**t hits the fan - FDA, INDs, and fecal microbiota transplants

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:40:00 +0100

[caption id="attachment_4663" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bristol Stool Chart"] [/caption]This weekend, the proverbial s**t hit the fan over the Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to require an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for stool transplants--formally known as "fecal microbiota transplants (FMT)"--for the treatment of C. difficile colitis. "C. diff," as it is known, is a severe inflammation of the bowel complicating treatment of other infections with antibiotics or treatment with chemotherapy. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

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See Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in Tightest Night Sky Cluster until 2026

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:05:00 +0100

[caption id="attachment_12513" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Credit: StarDate"] [/caption]Cicadas aren't the only scientific rarity expected this month. At the end of May three planets will be visible to the naked eye in one small area of the sky. The planets Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will form "the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026," according to the venerable Sky & Telescope magazine. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Drought Gobbles Up Texas Turkey Hunt

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:50:00 +0100

Turkey hunting in Texas dried up along with the state's water due to the epic drought of 2011. And while the drought has relented, turkey season hasn't been the same. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

30 Years of HIV: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

MedPage Today State Required CME — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:43:18 +0100

(MedPage Today) -- There was no fanfare on May 20, 1983 when Science published what is undoubtedly among the most important medical papers of the 20th century. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)

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Pesticide Makers Seek Answers as Bee Losses Sting Agriculture

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:21:07 +0100

By Carey Gillam(Reuters) - Monsanto Co is hosting a "Bee Summit." Bayer AG is breaking ground on a "Bee Care Center." And Sygenta AG is funding grants for research into the accelerating demise of honeybees in the United States, where the insects pollinate fruits and vegetables that make up roughly a quarter of the American diet.The agrichemical companies are taking these initiatives at a time when their best-selling pesticides are under fire from environmental and food activists who say the chemicals are killing off millions of bees. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

The Little Metronome That Wouldn't

NPR Health and Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:03:00 +0100

Take a metronome. Then take another. Then another. Set them ticking at different times. Look. Lift. (That's the key part.) Watch. Then Laugh. Because you will be dumbfounded.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

Lost in space: why it has taken so long to put a British astronaut into orbit

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:04 +0100

From early missed opportunities to its belated involvement, Britain has never been a contender in the space raceThere were always two British space communities. One consisted of visionaries and hard-headed realists who knew what should be done and why it had to happen. The other community, of non-dreamers for the most part, had political power, scientific authority and access to the Treasury.So in February 1945, while the German V2 missiles were still ascending to the edge of space and then dropping faster than the speed of sound on London, a radar instructor called Flight-Lieutenant Arthur C Clarke pointed out in a letter to Wireless World that a rocket that could reach a speed of 8km a second would continue parallel to the Earth's surface in a closed loop: it wou...

Tim Peake: one giant leap for Britain's first man in space

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100

Major Tim Peake will make history when he joins the crew of the International Space Station in 2015. So what can Britain's first official astronaut expect of life onboard?I think we already know what people will be calling him in two years' time. When that Soyuz rocket blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh desert carrying Britain's only visitor to the International Space Station (ISS), the first thing to be jettisoned will be Major Tim Peake's surname. Having seen off competition from more than 8,000 other applicants, following a career in the army and as a helicopter test pilot, Major Tim has really made the grade.Yet space is not just more amazing than we realise; it is also tougher than we think. Peake has already spent more than three years in training with the European Spa...

Heat Deaths in New York City Predicted to Rise

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:00 +0100

Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants: Update or Close?

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100

If one were to sketch a family tree of eastern U.S. power plants, the Gallatin Fossil Plant outside Nashville, Tenn., and the Big Sandy Power Plant in eastern Kentucky might be distant cousins. Separated by 300 miles of Cumberland Plateau, the two hulking coal burners share lineage as power plants that helped industrialize the South after World War II. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

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Creationism and revisionist history threaten to invade our classrooms | Zack Kopplin

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:30:00 +0100

We have to stop state legislators from sneaking creationist and revisionist textbooks into public schoolsLouisiana's legislators are continuing their legislative jihad to keep the theory of evolution out of the state's public school science classrooms. On 1 May, legislators killed a bill to repeal Louisiana's creationism law, the misnamed Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA).The law allows non-science to be snuck into science classrooms by teachers who use supplemental materials to "critique" politically controversial (but not scientifically controversial) theories, including evolution and climate science. Despite this loophole for creationism created by the LSEA, educators are still required to teach "material presented in the standard textbook", which includes the theory of evolution.T...

Giant 1950s robot Gygan up for sale

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:52 +0100

Eight-foot-tall radio-controlled robot capable of responding to voice or light ray commands is to be auctioned in LondonGygan, a giant radio-controlled robot, which more than half a century ago entranced the world by flashing its car headlamp-like eyes, turning its head stiffly from left to right, and shuffling forwards at the terrifying speed of 10 feet a minute, is to be auctioned after decades hidden in a private collection.The eight-foot-tall creature, weighing 1,000lbs, was launched at a trade fair in Milan in 1957, the same year as the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched into space. Its designer, Piero Fiorito, an engineer from Turin, puzzlingly insisted it looked like "a proud Englishman".Gygan, launched decades before the first home computer, was regarded as sophisticated for it...

Cancer, genomics and technological solutionism: A time to be wary

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:00 +0100

[caption id="attachment_1465" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Genetic sequencing may provide easy data but the truly useful missing data might lie at the level of protein signaling pathways (Image: Yaffe, Science Signaling, 2013, doi: 10.1126/scisignal.2003684)"] [/caption]In his new book "To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism", the philosopher of technology Evgeny Morozov develops the concept of "technological solutionism", the tendency to define problems primarily or purely based on whether or not a certain technology can address them. This is a concerning trend since it foreshadows a future where problems are no longer prioritized by their social or political importance but instead by how easily they would succumb under the blade of well-defined ...

Concussion: State Laws Ignore Science

MedPage Today Pediatrics — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:38:57 +0100

(MedPage Today) -- State lawmakers are moving quickly to enact traumatic brain injury legislation aimed at protecting young athletes, but those laws are often a step ahead of the available science, researchers reported. (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)

The Overwhelming Odds Of Climate Change

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:00 +0100

If you listen to global warming deniers, or even much of the public , it seems like there is some stack of scientific studies somewhere that refute anthropogenic--human-caused--climate change. If someone would just let them reach into that pile and pull out a paper, we'd all see that climate change is "a hoax," or so it seems in our fractured discourse. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Tim Peake to become first official British astronaut to visit International Space Station - video

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:00 +0100

A former army test pilot is to become the first official British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)

Stress Makes Gorilla Glass Stronger

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:00 +0100

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Who invented clothes? A Palaeolithic archaeologist answers | Becky Wragg Sykes

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:10:00 +0100

Hadley Freeman's answer to the question was chiffon-flimsy, so here's the lab-coat response"Who invented clothes?" It's one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers. It's the kind of thing that archaeologists like me get put on the spot about when chatting to kids, and we love to have a crack at answering.Saturday's "Ask a grown up" section featured just that question, from eight-year old Harriet, with an answer by Hadley Freeman, fashion expert and fantastic writer. Hadley's response was, as usual, entertainingly breezy, with some refreshing encouragement to Harriet to experiment in developing her own style; but, like a fine chiffon, it was a little flimsy in substance.I'm proud to be involved with Sci...

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Can A Piece of Hair Reveal How Much Coke Or Pepsi You Drink?

NPR Health and Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:00 +0100

People are notorious for under-reporting what they consume — they lie, forget or just guess wrong. For researchers who want to know how much soda we're drinking, a high-tech analysis technique could help.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

DSM-5: Caught between Mental Illness Stigma and Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:00 +0100

Like many psychiatrists, I have been amazed by the debates surrounding the DSM-5 , the first major revision of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in nearly twenty years, which was just released. Never before has a thick medical text of diagnostic nomenclature been the subject of so much attention.Although I was heartened to see more and more people discussing the real-world issues and challenges--for patients, families, clinicians and caregivers-within mental health care, for which the book offers an up-to-the-minute diagnostic GPS, I was also alarmed at the harsh criticism of the field of psychiatry and the APA. Consequently, I believe that as you read and watch this increased coverage, it's important to understand the difference b...

Two-Step Sensitivity Testing of Parametrized and Regionalized Life Cycle Assessments: Methodology and Case Study

Environmental Science and Technology — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:48:05 +0100

Environmental Science & TechnologyDOI: 10.1021/es3050949 (Source: Environmental Science and Technology)

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Phosphate Separation and Recovery from Wastewater by Novel Electrodialysis

Environmental Science and Technology — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:40:07 +0100

Environmental Science & TechnologyDOI: 10.1021/es4004476 (Source: Environmental Science and Technology)

Phosphite in Sedimentary Interstitial Water of Lake Taihu, a Large Eutrophic Shallow Lake in China

Environmental Science and Technology — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:39:49 +0100

Environmental Science & TechnologyDOI: 10.1021/es305297y (Source: Environmental Science and Technology)

Heartland Institute wastes real scientists' time – yet again | John Abraham

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:33:00 +0100

Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where armchair experts gave up fighting over whether climate change is occurring?This spring, I began receiving calls and emails from colleagues about a strange little book that was mailed to environmental science professors around the country. This was a big mailing, in total, a reported 100,000 copies were sent out. What was it about this little book that got us talking? Many things. First, a coordinated mailing of a book is unusual. But what is more unusual is a book that purports to be the "real story" about climate change, with graphs, figures, and tables. It came with a foreward by Senator Harrison Schmitt who is well known for misrepresenting the science. There was also an accompanying letter by Fred Singer. Many of us already know of Fred Sing...

Cell Toxicity and Oxidative Potential of Engine Exhaust Particles: Impact of Using Particulate Filter or Biodiesel Fuel Blend

Environmental Science and Technology — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:12:37 +0100

Environmental Science & TechnologyDOI: 10.1021/es305330y (Source: Environmental Science and Technology)

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Discover More: The Elements by Dan Green | Book Review | GrrlScientist

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:00 +0100

Crammed with gorgeous full-colour photographs and rich graphics, clear and concise writing, and large, easy-to-read font, this is the best chemistry primer I've ever read!Did you know that the bamboo lemur consumes enough cyanide daily to kill a human? ...that Paris green paint, which gets its colour from arsenic, was so toxic that it was used as a rat poison as well for painting masterpieces? ...that there is a lump of crystallised carbon (a diamond) that is 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) wide that weighs roughly 2.5 thousand trillion trillion tonnes in the core of a white dwarf star in the constellation Centaurus? If you enjoy learning interesting facts such as these, then you will love Dan Green's informative book, Discover More: The Elements [Scholastic Children's Books, 2012; Amazon U...

Hovering "Home Drone" Puts Burglars on Display

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:17 +0100

Japanese security firm Secom has a warning for would-be robbers - keep your eye on the sky because a soon-to-be-launched security drone will track you down. (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

One giant leap for Britain: UK's first official astronaut Tim Peake on tweeting like Chris Hadfield and missing his wife and sons

The Independent - Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:34:55 +0100

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‘I’ll tweet from space like Chris Hadfield – but I’ll also miss my wife and sons’: Britain’s first official astronaut Tim Peake on his new life in space

The Independent - Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:34:55 +0100

Development of Land Use Regression Models for Particle Composition in Twenty Study Areas in Europe

Environmental Science and Technology — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:19:20 +0100

Environmental Science & TechnologyDOI: 10.1021/es400156t (Source: Environmental Science and Technology)

Major Tim Peake stole my space age daydream | Suzanne Moore

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:04:55 +0100

Britain's first official astronaut will beat me into space. But the light of long dead stars will continue to guide our fantasiesIt's so unfair. Rather like a talentless X-Factor inmate, I still don't properly understand why I am not being sent into space but someone called Major Tim Peake is. OK, he may have graduated from the European Space Agency, be fit, smart, capable and able to drive a helicopter but has he really been freaking out in a moonage dream for years? I very much doubt it.The first Brit in space was the privately funded Helen Sharman, the chemist who flew to the Mir space station on a Russian Soyuz craft in 1991.She, like Peake, was eminently qualified, sensible, scientific and trained up but I bet they had not left school at 16 and when asked by the headmistress, "What, g...

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China's One-Child Policy Affects Personality

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 +0100

In 1979 China instituted the one-child policy, which limited every family to just one offspring in a controversial attempt to reduce the country's burgeoning population. The strictly enforced law had the desired effects: in 2011 researchers estimated that the policy prevented 400 million births. In a new study in Science , researchers find that it has also caused China's so-called little emperors to be more pessimistic, neurotic and selfish than their peers who have siblings. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Why Feeling Anxious about a Vaccine Makes It More Effective (and Other Benefits of Short-Term Stress)

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 +0100

[caption id="attachment_761" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Source: CDC, via Wikimeda Commons"] [/caption]SAN FRANCISCO--Standing at a podium in front of an audience of psychiatrists, clinicians and scientists, Firdaus Dhabhar brings up a video of his infant son on a large projector screen and presses play. Smiling and wriggling, Dhabhar's son rests on his back in a doctor's office--perfectly content. "Watch for the immediate reaction," Dhabhar tells the audience. A nurse expertly injects his son's thigh with a vaccine. For half a second, nothing changes. Then the child stops moving; his eyes widen; his face twists into misery as he begins to cry. Meanwhile, the nurse has not missed a beat, injecting several more vaccines. As she leaves she turns to the camera and says, "Sorry I c...

Are mental illnesses such as PMS and depression culturally determined? | Corrinne Burns

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:14 +0100

A growing number of psychiatrists suspect mental conditions are 'culture-bound syndromes' rather than exclusively biologicalThe latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – DSM 5 – was published over the weekend. Produced by the American Psychiatric Association, it describes the symptoms of a vast range of mental illnesses and is intended as a guide to diagnosis.Why should we in the UK care? Simple: the political dominance of the US means that as soon as a mental disorder is named in the DSM, that disorder becomes valid in the eyes of many.But not everyone is a fan. The DSM committee has been accused of continually expanding the categories of mental illness, resulting in "diagnostic inflation" – with the result that increasing numbers of us are diagno...

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15 thoughts on eliminating neglected tropical diseases

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:31:00 +0100

We summarise the points made by a live chat panel on how the global health community can work towards eliminating NTDsDr Paul Emerson, trachoma control programme director, The Carter Centre, Atlanta, USANTDs aren't as remote or obscure as many think: Trachoma and worms used to be endemic to the US and Europe, but were eliminated through improvements in hygiene, sanitation and access to medical care. NTDs still affect billions of people in the world, so the global NTD conversation needs to focus on how and why NTDs are keeping the bottom billion at the bottom.Build local support by involving community leaders: Involving trusted community leaders and members is critical to building local support for NTD interventions. For example, in trachoma-endemic communities, women who have undergone eye...

Protection for trees from pests and disease held back by 'skills gap'

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:41 +0100

Government taskforce calls for plant health to be put on a par with animal health and for the creation of a plant officerEfforts to protect Britain's trees from diseases and pests such as ash dieback and caterpillars that strip oaks of leaves are being hampered by a "skills gap", a government-appointed taskforce has warned.The taskforce, set up in the wake of a fungus that kills ash trees being found across England last year, also called for plant health to be put on a par with animal health, and for the creation of a chief plant health officer akin to the government's chief vet."There has been an erosion in the UK and elsewhere of certain crucial field- and research-based expertise necessary to ensure tree health and plant biosecurity," said the taskforce's final report, published on Mond...

Can Patents Keep Up with Technology?

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100

The U.S. patent system is a popular target. Recently we have heard that big portfolios of large companies pose a threat to small inventors, “patent trolls” who exist solely to sue real companies have hijacked the marketplace for new ideas and colossal lawsuits prove that America's patent system is broken. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

UK's first official astronaut Tim Peake 'absolutely delighted' to get ISS mission

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:31:54 +0100

Former army helicopter pilot will blast off on Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2015Britain's first official astronaut has spoken of his delight at being selected for a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station.Major Tim Peake, a former army helicopter pilot, will blast off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in November 2015.For the next two and a half years, Peake, 41, will train as a flight engineer for the six-month mission during which he will carry out scientific experiments and be eligible for spacewalks."I'm absolutely delighted by the decision," Peake told reporters at a press conference in London on Monday. "It really is a tremendous privilege to be assigned to a long-duration mission to the ISS."Peake is the fourth of six a...

African soil diversity mapped for the first time

SciDev.Net — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:18 +0100

An atlas of a key natural resource, Africa's soil, aims to give people outside the science world insight into its importance and management. (Source: SciDev.Net)

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Mystery of Moon's Magnetic Field Deepens

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:10:00 +0100

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Scientific research and the European Union | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:01:00 +0100

What effect does European Union membership have on science and research? And what would it mean if the UK left?A recent edition of the BBC Radio 4 science programme "Material World" fulfilled current BBC policy by including a member of UKIP. Roger Helmer MEP was in discussion with Professor Ed Hinds, from Imperial, about the effects of EU membership, or lack of it, on research. I was also there, to talk about pear-shaped nuclei and electric dipole moments.Ed is a world expert on electric dipole moments, and I am the UK representative on the CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each other's topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bu...

Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 +0100

Identification and treatment issues surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are challenging enough. Now research is shedding light on long-term outcomes for people with ADHD. A May 20 study in Pediatrics reports that men who had ADHD in childhood are twice as likely to be obese in middle age, even if they no longer exhibit symptoms of the disorder. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Illegal Sea Turtle Egg Poaching on the Rise in Costa Rica

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100

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Look inside space by Rob Lloyd Jones | Book Review | GrrlScientist

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100

This well-constructed and engaging 'flap book' is interesting, accurate and highly interactive – a wonderful introduction to space for young children. Do you like flaps in your books? Even though I am an adult, I really like books with flaps. So knowing that, it's almost a foregone conclusion that I'd really enjoy Rob Lloyd Jones's new children's book, Look inside space [Usborne Publishing, 2012; Amazon UK; Amazon US]. That this is a children's science book makes it even better. Have you wanted to explore the International Space Station? Well, now you can because this show-all book reveals the secrets of the space station -- yes, even how the toilet prevents astronauts from floating away when their trousers are wrapped around their ankles! Have you ever wondered what Earth looks like fro...

Separating the recent from the ancient past | Dr Dave Hone

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:12:00 +0100

The ever-changing landscape can cause some confusion when organic remains of different eras come togetherIt is not uncommon to come across claims of fossils being found in layers where we would not expect them to be, with combinations of animals from different geological eras coming together. A foundation of palaeontology is of course that most groups of organisms tend to come and go – they wax and wane and eventually most (or all) members of a group will become extinct. Thus while mammals lived alongside non-avian dinosaurs, it's only when the latter became extinct that they really expanded and dominated. So we would not expect to find, for example, the skull of an ungulate alongside bits of non-avian dinosaur bones. So when these claims are made, do they challenge accepted theory of th...

If Your Shrink Is A Bot, How Do You Respond?

NPR Health and Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:04:00 +0100

A computer-simulated woman named Ellie is designed to talk to people who are struggling emotionally and take their measure — 30 times per second. Researchers hope their technology, which reads a person's body language and inflections, will yield diagnostic clues for clinical therapists.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

Bans Of Same-Sex Marriage Can Take A Psychological Toll

NPR Health and Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:03:00 +0100

When several states passed laws banning same-sex marriages, researchers found that the mental health of gay residents seemed to suffer. Conversely, stress-related disorders dropped after the legalization of gay marriage in one state. Researchers say negative media portrayals and loss of safety were contributing factors.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

Researchers Visualize Memory Formation For The First Time In Zebrafish

Health News from Medical News Today — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:00 +0100

In our interaction with our environment we constantly refer to past experiences stored as memories to guide behavioral decisions. But how memories are formed, stored and then retrieved to assist decision-making remains a mystery. By observing whole-brain activity in live zebrafish, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have visualized for the first time how information stored as long-term memory in the cerebral cortex is processed to guide behavioral choices. The study, published in the journal Neuron was carried out by Dr. Tazu Aoki and Dr... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Reporting Incidental Findings In Gene Sequencing: Ethicists Provide Framework Supporting New Recommendations

Health News from Medical News Today — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:00 +0100

In a paper published in Science Express, a group of experts led by bioethicists in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine provide a framework for the new American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recommendations on reporting incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing. In March 2013, the ACMG recommended that all laboratories conducting clinical sequencing seek and report pathogenic and expected pathogenic mutations for a short list of carefully chosen genes and conditions. In this paper, Dr... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Men With High-Testosterone More Likely To Choose Red In Competitions

Health News from Medical News Today — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Why do so many sports players and athletes choose to wear the color red when they compete? A new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that it may have to do with their testosterone levels. The new study, conducted by psychological scientist Daniel Farrelly of the University of Sunderland and colleagues, demonstrated that males who chose red as their color in a competitive task had higher testosterone levels than other males who chose blue... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Becoming an individual twin isn't about genetics or environment, but how you experience them

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 06:07:00 +0100

Have you ever known a pair of identical twins? Not just the ones that look alike, but identical twins that really were part of, at some point, the same egg and sperm combination, that then split early in development to create two "identical" people, with the same genetics.If genetics really were the be all and end all of our behavior, you might expect these identical twins to look the same, act the same, speak the same, move the same. They have the same DNA, they should essentially, be the same people. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Fight Is On for North Dakota's Fracking-Water Market

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 05:48:32 +0100

By Ernest ScheyderWATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) - In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American energy boom, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting."It's not that they lack water, like Texas and California. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

At Margins of Shale Oil Boom, A Tempered Euphoria

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Mon, 20 May 2013 05:09:29 +0100

By Kristen Hays and Jonathan LeffHOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Uptick in Whooping Cough Linked to Subpar Vaccines

ScienceNOW — Mon, 20 May 2013 05:01:00 +0100

Newer shots are safer, but not as effective as older ones (Source: ScienceNOW)

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Invasive frogs carry amphibian-killing fungus

Los Angeles Times - Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:56:00 +0100

A study links African clawed frogs, which were brought to California decades ago for use in pregnancy tests, with a deadly pathogen.African clawed frogs were first brought to California decades ago to help doctors figure out whether their patients were pregnant. After new technology made those pregnancy tests obsolete, the creatures were let loose, and thrived for decades in the state's drainage ditches and ponds. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)

First long-term study reveals link between childhood ADHD and obesity

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) A new study conducted by researchers at the Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center found men diagnosed as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder were twice as likely to be obese in a 33-year follow-up study compared to men who were not diagnosed with the condition. The study appears in the May 20 online edition of Pediatrics. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

Anabolic steroids may affect future mental health

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(University of Gothenburg) There is a link between use of anabolic-androgenic steroids and reduced mental health later in life. This is the main conclusion of a new study on elite male strength athletes that researchers from the University of Gothenburg recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Twenty percent of the subjects in the study admitted steroid use. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

Disney researchers develop fast, economical method for high-definition video compositing

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(Disney Research) Video compositing to create special effects, replace backgrounds or combine multiple takes of an actor's performance is an integral, but highly labor-intensive, part of modern film making. Researchers at Disney Research, Zürich, however, have found an innovative way to create these composite videos that is simple, fast, and easy to use. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

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Blame your parents for bunion woes

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(Wiley) A novel study reports that white men and women of European descent inherit common foot disorders, such as bunions (hallux valgus) and lesser toe deformities, including hammer or claw toe. Findings from the Framingham Foot Study -- the first to estimate the heritability of foot disorders in humans -- appear in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

New study identifies risk factors for depression among COPD patients

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(American Thoracic Society) Patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) typically suffer from depression more frequently than those without COPD, resulting in higher levels of disability and illness and increasing the overall healthcare burden for the COPD population. Now, a study from researchers in Argentina indicates female COPD patients and patients who experience significant shortness of breath may have the greatest risk for developing depression. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

The theoretical root of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology. Part 1: Reconsidering the influence of phenomenology and hermeneutics

History of Psychiatry — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

The present paper investigates the methodology involved in Jaspers’ psychopathology and compares it with Husserl’s phenomenology and with Dilthey’s cultural science. Allgemeine Psychopathologie and other methodological works by Jaspers, the works of Husserl and Dilthey that Jaspers cited, and previous research papers on Jaspers are reviewed. Jaspers had conflicting views on understanding, which were comprised of both empathic understanding and rational, ideal-typical understanding. Such a standpoint on understanding is considerably different from Dilthey’s. Additionally, the present paper reconfirms that Jaspers’ ‘phenomenology’ as a form of descriptive psychology for the understanding of empirical psychic states is different from Husserl’s p...

1 in 10 teens using 'study drugs,' but parents aren't paying attention

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(University of Michigan Health System) As high schoolers prepare for final exams, teens nationwide may be tempted to use a "study drug" -- a prescription stimulant or amphetamine -- to gain an academic edge. But a new University of Michigan poll shows only one in 100 parents of teens 13-17 years old believes that their teen has used a study drug. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

New study finds blind people have the potential to use their 'inner bat' to locate objects

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(University of Southampton) New research from the University of Southampton has shown that blind and visually impaired people have the potential to use echolocation, similar to that used by bats and dolphins, to determine the location of an object. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

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International Communication Association to hold Annual Conference in London, UK

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(International Communication Association) The International Communication Association will hold its annual conference June 17-21 in London, United Kingdom. The theme of the 2013 conference is Challenging Communication Research, challenging the status quo of past research and urging the research community to look deeper into public discourse and challenge the economic, political and technological interests in society. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

Latest social science research booklet produced

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(SAGE Publications) The Campaign will launch its latest Making the Case for the Social Science booklet next month, on the theme of longitudinal reseach into areas such as education and health. The booklet will be launched on June 11 by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, and Polly Toynbee, writer and Guardian columnist. The launch will be held at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills conference center in London before an audience of policy makers and social scientists. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

Having a nighttime critical care physician in the ICU doesn't improve patient outcomes

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Having a nighttime intensivist had no clear benefit on length of stay or mortality for critical care patients, not even patients admitted at night or those with the most critical illnesses at the time of admission, according to new findings from Penn Medicine researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

Listening to favorite music lowers anxiety, sedation in ICU patients on ventilators

EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0100

(Ohio State University) New research suggests that for some hospitalized ICU patients on mechanical ventilators, using headphones to listen to their favorite types of music could lower anxiety and reduce their need for sedative medications. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)